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Re: flickR works against photographers by stripping EXIF data

Jeff Johnston — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 20:05:17 -0000

Keep up the good work. They should have no basis to strip the data.

Re: flickR works against photographers by stripping EXIF data

cosmictap — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 00:56:09 -0000

Ha I didn't know it was you. Yeah, basically, they keep it, but they strip it out of the resized images. So if someone downloads one of the resized versions, the metadata is gone.

Re: flickR works against photographers by stripping EXIF data

jason2008 — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 23:53:11 -0000

Oh I misunderstood, I thought you said FlickR removed that data. I see so it's only removed when users download the photo.

Your brother Jay

Re: flickR works against photographers by stripping EXIF data

cosmictap — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 19:29:03 -0000

the data for the images is there if it was in the original image - it's on the "meta" page for each image (for both Pro and non-Pro accounts, from what I can see).

i posted a brief update in the article itself, and will update as I know more....

Re: flickR works against photographers by stripping EXIF data

jason2008 — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 20:32:36 -0000

This will be a serious undertaking for FlickR to embed the original data from all of the the uploads. The data is most likely not filed conveniently, if at all. I have the feeling that FlickR will close before taking this on, but it is something that they must do to protect the works and allow the photo data to remain behind the image.

Another option would be to begin this undertaking with all the Pro account first. The Pro accounts are usually the most serious of photographers but I have seen many serious and excellent photographers with free accounts also.

Re: flickR works against photographers by stripping EXIF data

Guest — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 12:12:27 -0000

This is rather serious, since it is an easy thing to keep the creator exif data. Makes you wonder WHY they find if necessary to strip it, since I can upload tags from my exif data easily...

Re: flickR works against photographers by stripping EXIF data

Carlos Lorenzo — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 07:01:19 -0000

I have a pro account and never stopped to think of this event. Thanks for pointing that out. Anything that can be done to keep the photographer's rights and the technical data behind the image is of course important and worth claiming for.

Re: flickR works against photographers by stripping EXIF data

Håkan Dahlström — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 05:20:03 -0000

Good article. I know about the problem but never really thought about it until now.